One Month Exactly

One month to the day, we have been reunited with the not as essential items that we had from London.  Once again, the house is packed with boxes and paper and random pieces of furniture in the middle of the living room, suitcases in the hallway.  There are broken down boxes and open boxes full of paper everywhere!

But, the kitchen is nearly all unpacked, and I was able to make pasta and chicken parmesan for dinner last night.   (thank you for your help, Mum Mum!)

The girls have unpacked (nearly)all of their boxes, which just means that there are piles and piles of all the random trinkets that girls collect.  The most challenging bit of unpacking is trying to find a spot for all the random momentos and trinkets.  (I will not say if it is my least or most favourite part of the process.)  Hopefully by the end of the weekend, we will have a bit of a control in all the kids rooms. Drew has so much less stuff than the girls.  He basically has Legos, books, and a small bucket of trinkets.  The girls on the other hand have boxes and drawers full of stationary, fidget toys, books, momentos, key chains, and who knows what else!

The team of movers were great.  They were very friendly and chatty and loved Archie.  And they got to the bar into the basement, which was no easy feat.  I am not sure how they did, but it looks amazing.  They were so grateful for the pizza I bought them for lunch; they said that not a lot of people actually provided lunch for them, which is baffling to me.  They work really hard!  They were also telling me about a lady who they moved who would only let people of a certain skin color enter her house.  When I told the kids about that at dinner, Lauren said “That just makes my blood boil to hear that!”  And Drew said “I bet she is a Trump supporter.”    They were all very fascinated that we moved from England.

I am aiming to have all but the basement sorted by the end of next week.  And at least have an idea of the items we need to purchase.  I know for sure we need a desk for Lauren, as she is currently using a folding table as a desk, and some shelves for the closet in the basement.

In other news, I am the proud driver of a 2021 Honda Odyssey and I LOVE IT!!!!  It is such a comfortable drive and I love the Apple Car Play feature.  The kids are happy and Brad is just happy that I am happy.  We debated about a three row SUV, but the space in the trunk was just not going to be big enough.  And the van was actually less expensive!  The only negative of our cars is that since we have no driving record here for nearly 6 years, we are being treated as if we were 16 year olds for the insurance rates.  But hopefully that will change soon.  Both of the girls said “This car is like the business class of cars!”

The craziest thing we did yesterday was purchase the X-box that we promised the kids.  They installed all the TVs except the massive one in the basement yesterday as well.  I have a feeling that is where they are going to spending a lot of time.

Brad and I enjoyed a G&T on the screened in porch while watching some telly last night, which I could get used to.

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  1. BobOctober 11, 2020 at 4:45 PM

    Glad you are getting settled and got something to drive😄.

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